Painting my Office when terribly wrong, now i need help?

Question

My office walls have a mid-level molding that separates it. On the bottom I have a brown wall paper and the top is painted. Well my business partner wanted a deep brown on top so we tried it and it does not look good at all, so the question is how I fix it with out repainting the whole office again. What I was thinking is a maybe a light brown mixed with glaze over the top to give it a kind of faux look. But the problem is with faux jobs the light paint is usually the base coat, so has anyone had any experience with the top layer being the light coat instead of the dark coat. THANKS
Brad

Answer 1

In decorative painting gorgeous effects can be achieved with a dark glaze on light base, or light glaze on dark base. What makes or breaks the effect is obtaining the right contrast between the two colours. When using light glaze on dark, you have to experiment a bit because the paint has to maintain more opacity than when working dark on light -- so add glazing liquid sparingly to paint, try it out, and then decide if more is needed. Good luck.

Answer 2

I had the same problem and this what I did
I got two different paints in the same value with about 3-4 shades lighter of each other and some glaze and started sponging over the real dark color and it turned out better then I ever dreamed

Answer 3

You could do that. But it will seriously probably take you just as long or longer trying to do a faux finish than it would trying to to repaint.

Answer 4

just a suggestion ? a narrow strip of wall papper ,so far down from the top ,light in color or pattern . foot or so ?what you 2 choose .

Answer 5

i think it would look pretty much the same . does not matter which color goes on first. try a small area first